Milan Fashion Week: Post-human gimmickry

Designers merged 90s nostalgia with futurism, but the political present was hard to ignore

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Outside the controlled conditions of catwalk shows at Milan Fashion Week, political adversaries and riot police clashed in the lead up to one of the most fiercely contested Italian elections in recent history, with far-right candidates growing in popularity and anti-fascist protesters attempting to stem the tide. "You'd think Italian fashion would be right in there. It's one of the points of the job, after all: to hold a mirror up to the moment and reflect it in a material way," muses Vanessa Friedman in The New York Times. Instead, she continued, Milan closed in "full back-pedal mode".

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